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The church of St. Chrysogone is a Romanesque church built in the 10th century, rebuilt and enlarged in 1175. It is currently the only remaining part of the former great medieval male Benedictine monastery that was located there. Construction of the bell tower began in 1485, but stopped in 1546 and was never completed. Next to the church are the remains of the medieval Benedictine monastery, which was rebuilt in the 19th century and then demolished during the Second World War.

The church of St. Clement and Panteleimon is a replica of the old church of St. Panteleimon, built by St. Clement of Ohrid in 863, demolished by the Ottomans. The construction of the present church was completed in 2002. In the northern outer part, traces of the Sultan-Mehmed (Imaret) Mosque, built there during the Ottoman period, have been left.

The church of St. Clement was built around 1200 and was greatly enlarged in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is dedicated to the patron saint of sailors, Saint Clement, and contains several model ships. In the 19th century, the right to put his name on some of the pew seats was sold, which can still be seen on several of them.

The small church of St. Constantine and St. Helena (Agios Konstantinos and Agia Helena) is located in a beautiful coastal spot next to the beach of Kato Gouves.

The Constantine and Michael Church (also known as the Romanov Church) was built in 1913 on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Tsarist Romanov Dynasty.

The church of St. Demetrios near Ano Viranepiskopi is a three-aisled Byzantine basilica with a domed chapel on its southern side.

The church of St. Dimitri was built in the 18th century on the remains of a 16th-century church. The present building owes its present appearance to the renovations and extensions carried out between 1886 and 1894. Its bell tower dates from 1908. From the 18th to the middle of the 19th century, the church was also the Cathedral of Skopje, before the construction of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary.

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The church of St. Dionys dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries. An excavation museum was built under the church on the Esslingen market square in the 1960s. It shows the foundations of the walls of the former churches, attested on this site since 777. The church's greatest treasure is the magnificent stained glass windows in the choir dating from around 1300.

The Church of St. Dmitry (Biserica Sfântul Dumitru) is an Orthodox church built between 1890 and 1899. The church was closed and looted under the Soviet regime. The church was reopened in 1990. In 2005, a fire caused severe damage to the interior of the nave and the bell tower. The church was restored in 2016.